Final Bourne inspection of Sagamore Market Basket getting underway

Monday

May 21, 2012 at 12:01 AMMay 21, 2012 at 9:20 PM

The Bourne Planning Board and Town Planner Coreen Moore were scheduled for a walk-through inspection of the new Market Basket supermarket planning to open soon off the Route 6 ramp of the Mid-Cape Highway in Sagamore.

The Bourne Planning Board and Town Planner Coreen Moore were scheduled for a walk-through inspection of the new Market Basket supermarket planning to open soon off the Route 6 ramp of the Mid-Cape Highway in Sagamore.

The results of that inspection will be discussed by the planning board Thursday night at 7 in the Main Street Community Center.

The Demoulas company, owners of Market Basket, specifically precluded the press from the Tuesday inspection, telling Bourne planners they do not encourage newspaper coverage they cannot control.

Moore said a successful inspection would lead to the Bourne Building Department issuing the Sagamore project an occupancy permit. Should there be any outstanding issues, she said, the owners would likely be required to post a performance bond.

The newly reconstructed shopping complex in Sagamore includes three clothes outlets that have been open for the past three weeks. A third building planned for the complex has not been constructed. It was originally designed to accommodate a pharmacy with a drive-through window, but those plans and tenants did not evolve.

Market Basket’s latest store has been eagerly awaited by Bourne shoppers, who have been without a supermarket in town for four years; following the Grand Union departure from Monument Beach. The Sagamore market is expected to alter food-shopping patterns in town.

Bourne police and planners have been reassured that timed traffic lights at Sandwich Road and in the new signalized intersection on the Route 6 ramp will negate the possibility of traffic backups in Sagamore.